New Credit Rating System Coming [CNN]
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Thu Feb 5 20:45:14 PST 1998
Forwarded message:
> NEW CREDIT RATING SYSTEM ON HORIZON
>
> graphic February 5, 1998
> Web posted at: 2:38 p.m. EST (1938 GMT)
>
> NEW YORK (AP) -- Within months, retailers will be able to use a new
> computerized credit-rating system to decide not only whether they'll
> take your check or debit card, but how big a check you can write.
>
> Banks will be able to use the system to determine whether they will
> let you open a checking account, and what kind of fees you will pay.
>
> Deluxe Corp., the nation's biggest check printer, has joined Fair,
> Isaac & Co., a credit scoring company, and Acxiom Corp., a data
> warehouse, to create the system for rating a merchant's risk of
> accepting checks and debit cards.
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